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My trusty old plumber has retired and I’ve been trying a few new ones last year or so and haven’t had a good honest reliable plumber to replace my old one. I used a new guy who is quite active in the area and I thought had a good rep. Had a small smell of gas near meter in outside cupboard and he...

The plumber I normally use now charges "Travelling Time" I rang him to say that we had an overflowing cistern. He said he would call in on his way home. He was 12 miles North of my house and lived 5 miles South of my house. I even went to the plumbers merchant to get a Ball Cock so...

I am trying to improve the EPC of an old house,
It has a cellar. I am thinking of applying Kingspan/Celotex between the joists beneath the ground floor.
I have a choice of using either 25 mil Celotex or 50 mil Celotex, The 25 mil stuff is slightly cheaper than the 50 mil stuff....

Insulating the floor well won't make a huge difference to your score, maybe 4 or 5 points if that.
50mm kingspan has the insulating value of 150mm of rockwool.
The first 100mm of rockwool does around 98% of the insulating (it is not linear).
So you'll achieve as good a score (or almost)...

We insulated all the floors and some of the walls and the EPC surveyor said he couldn't take it into account for the EPC because he couldn't see it.
Be sure to speak to your assessor before hand to make arrangements for him to see the insulation.

I have a chimney breast which needs re-plastering.
The plasterer who was supposed to be doing it has not turned up.
I may try to do it myself.
In France they have a brilliant product called "Crepe" which is pure white and you put it on walls with a plasterers trowel....